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lobste.rs

I’ve said this before, but I’m going to keep repeating it:

The point of a university education is not to teach you, it’s to give you a guided tour of your ignorance.

A degree in most fields will not teach to the entire field (a lifetime of study won’t do that either). It will give you enough of an overview of the field that you can learn the bits that are relevant or interesting to you later.

Every individual thing I learned as an undergraduate could now be found online. More than half of it is stuff I wouldn’t have thought to look for.

Empasis mine. Profound.